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Nigeria: Deaths in one-sided violence against civilians

763deaths · 2025-79.2% since 2015

Civilians killed deliberately by a government or organised group. Summed from UCDP's events by country and year (best estimate). Events in Gaza and the West Bank, which UCDP files under Israel, are counted under West Bank and Gaza. From a country's first recorded event onward, a year with no events is zero. Annual figures for Nigeria from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
2025763
2024408
2023415
2022393
2021209
2020485
2019389
2018536
2017741
2016634
20153,662
20145,104
2013844
2012667
2011121
201093
200914
2008146
20075
200610
200512
200438
200395
2002112
2001386
200042
19992,505
199842
19974
19965
19951
199456
19933
19921
19910
199080

Source

Published by UCDP, produced by Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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UCDP (2026). Deaths in one-sided violence against civilians. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-deaths-one-sided (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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